About

Luna Display

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Luna turns your iPad into a wireless second display

We gave prototypes to the press, this is what they had to say

Luna Display seamlessly extends your Mac desktop to your iPad, creating a wireless second monitor with stunning image quality. Available for Mini DisplayPort or USB-C, Luna sets up in seconds and instantly works with your existing Wi-Fi.

Luna was designed to have a signature look and fit great with your Mac

Luna is a true display that fits in the palm of your hand. Simply plug Luna in your Mac, launch the free app, and you’re off and running. It's the quickest and easiest way to setup a second screen with your iPad.

Easy to use and friendly, Luna fits in your palm

Powered by our unique LIQUID technology, Luna was designed from the very beginning to work wirelessly. However if Wi-Fi is not available, USB is also a great reliable alternative.

Mac and iPad connect over Wi-Fi or USB

Luna Display acts as a complete extension to your Mac, allowing you to use it directly from your iPad with full support for external keyboards, Apple Pencil, and touch interactions. It literally turns your Mac into a touchable device, allowing pinching, panning and tapping… making it much more than just a second screen.

Luna fully integrates with our award-winning drawing software Astropad. Luna extends both Astropad Standard and Astropad Studio to provide the ultimate drawing experience with the best second screen solution for iPad. If you are a creative professional, Luna has been designed with you in mind.

Works with any modern iPad - Luna requires an iPad running iOS 9.1 (or later): iPad 2 (or later), any iPad Mini and any iPad Pro.

Using the iPad as a second display allows you to more easily get your work done anywhere — so you can be productive whether you’re at the office, in the studio, or on the go. Luna is the perfect companion for...

Spreadsheets & Data - Luna gives you the freedom and flexibility to give your data and spreadsheets the room it deserves. It's the perfect partner for Excel, Numbers, or any of your other favorite spreadsheet apps.

Presentations & Keynotes - Take advantage of dual monitor presentation modes to make your power point and Keynote presentation more fluid and precise.

Development & Coding - Use your iPad as a preview window for a flexible and portable way to see and share code previews.

Audio and Music - Give plugins and additional editing windows their own place to live while utilizing touch interactions to bring creative executions to a whole new level.

We developed Luna because we knew there was a better solution than relying on software to turn an iPad into a second display.

Software apps literally hack your graphics card, delivering a glitchy and unreliable picture. Software tricks your Mac into thinking a display is attached, when in fact they get no benefit of graphics acceleration or Metal GPU support. It's like buying a car and only using half the engine.

So unlike software apps, Luna harnesses the raw power of your graphics card, giving you the full benefit of its graphics acceleration — delivering a stunning second monitor that’s 100% wire free.

Get the benefit of graphics acceleration & Metal GPU

When developing the product design, we wanted Luna to stand out and feel like a creative accessory to the computer hardware. We purposefully avoided making it look like another Apple-like, copy cat accessory.

In designing Luna we took inspiration from crystals found in nature

A great amount of time was put into the angular, crystal like design to be as aesthetically pleasing to the eye as well as the hand.

Early 3D study of the crystal design enclosure

Our proprietary LIQUID Technology was originally built for creative professionals and is now available to everyone.

Velocity Control, which analyzes network conditions dozens of times per second

Founded by ex-Apple engineers

Astro HQ — the company behind Luna — was founded by two ex-Apple engineers: Matt Ronge & Giovanni Donelli. In 2015 we launched a tool designed for creative professionals called Astropad. Astropad has been a smash hit that is now used by tens of thousands of creative pros and some of the largest animation studios in the world. We are now using our experience with Astropad to create Luna Display.

Setting up Luna Display

Press Kit

Risks and challenges

Developing innovative hardware always carries risks, from design problems to unexpected costs. That's why from the very beginning it's been our priority to eliminate as many risks as possible. We've spent the last 12 months developing the hardware to make sure it is robust and reliable. We've also produced 100 USB-C units and 100 Mini DisplayPort units to flush out any remaining production problems.

Our team has a strong background in product design and engineering. Our team has shipped products at some of the leading technology companies in the world. We are also the team behind the award winning creative tool, Astropad, that's now in use by some of the largest design and animation firms in the world. We have significant experiencing building products for the Apple ecosystem. We do not anticipate any compliance problems with Apple as we are building on a widely used protocol (DisplayPort) and we've previously submitted apps using our technology to the App Store (see Astropad).